"Genetic details of controversial 'three-parent baby' revealed." A US fertility clinic revealed last year that it...
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"Genetic details of controversial 'three-parent baby' revealed." A US fertility clinic revealed last year that it had created a baby boy using a controversial technique that mixes DNA from three people. The team "removed the nucleus from a healthy donor egg and replaced it with a nucleus taken from the egg cell of a woman who carries a rare neurological disease called Leigh syndrome, leaving the donor's healthy mitochondria intact. The scientists then fertilized the modified egg with the father's sperm before implanting it into the mother's uterus. The resulting baby was born in April 2016."
"The paper reports new details about the procedure, such as the method used to transfer the mitochondria: freezing and heating the embryo before using an electrical pulse to fuse the mother's nucleus into the donor egg. The study also reveals that some diseased DNA from the mother was carried over inadvertently into the donor egg, which could have long-term repercussions for the child's health."
http://www.nature.com/news/genetic-details-of-controversial-three-parent-baby-revealed-1.21761
"Genetic details of controversial 'three-parent baby' revealed." A US fertility clinic revealed last year that it had created a baby boy using a controversial technique that mixes DNA from three people. The team "removed the nucleus from a healthy donor egg and replaced it with a nucleus taken from the egg cell of a woman who carries a rare neurological disease called Leigh syndrome, leaving the donor's healthy mitochondria intact. The scientists then fertilized the modified egg with the father's sperm before implanting it into the mother's uterus. The resulting baby was born in April 2016."
"The paper reports new details about the procedure, such as the method used to transfer the mitochondria: freezing and heating the embryo before using an electrical pulse to fuse the mother's nucleus into the donor egg. The study also reveals that some diseased DNA from the mother was carried over inadvertently into the donor egg, which could have long-term repercussions for the child's health."
http://www.nature.com/news/genetic-details-of-controversial-three-parent-baby-revealed-1.21761
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